Korea Open: Zhao through to second round
Carol Zhao defeated Dayeon Back 6-4, 6-1 on Monday night and will play No 4 seed Diana Shnaider in the next round
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Canadian qualifier Carol Zhao won against wildcard Dayeon Back 6-4, 6-1 to advance to the second round of the Korea Open at the Olympic Park Tennis Center in Seoul on Monday.
Zhao, ranked No 272, will play No 4 seed Diana Shnaider next.
Seoul WTA 500, other first-round results (Olympic Park Tennis Center, hard, USD 922.573, most recent results first):
- Tatjana Maria vs. Viktoriya Tomova
- Yulia Putintseva vs. Amanda Anisimova
- Ajla Tomljanovic vs. Su Jeong Jang
- Polina Kudermetova vs. Priscilla Hon
- Peyton Stearns vs. Emma Raducanu
- Sloane Stephens vs. Hailey Baptiste
- Arantxa Rus vs. Marta Kostyuk
- Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Varvara Lepchenko
- Heather Watson (Q) beat Jia-Jing Lu (Q): 6-4, 6-4
- Veronika Kudermetova beat Shuai Zhang: 6-4, 6-3
- Yue Yuan (8) beat Elena-Gabriela Ruse (Q): 4-6, 6-2, 6-2
